Don't Open the Door

I thought he was joking at first. We were sitting in my kitchen at 2 AM,

lights off, drinking some coffee, because neither of us could sleep. He kept checking

the windows like he expected something to be standing there. If I ever show up at your place unannounced,

he said, very calmly, don't open the door. I laughed it off thinking he was

joking. He wasn't. I'm serious, he continued. If I knock,

if I call, if I text you asking to come in, don't. And if I insist,

if I sound desperate, you need to kill me. That's when I stopped smiling and laughing

all together. I was confused, why would my friend that I've known for long tell me